incumbrancer

English

Etymology

From incumbrance +‎ -er.

Noun

incumbrancer (plural incumbrancers)

1. (law, historical) One who holds incumbrance, or some legal claim, lien, or charge on an estate.
   • 1826, James Kent, Commentaries on American Law:

     jointress , a tenant by the courtesy , a remainderman and reversioner , a judgment creditor , and every other incumbrancer , unless he be an incumbrancer pendente lite […]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “incumbrancer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)